The vast remainder consists of real estate — from a former royal palace to the Athens police headquarters — and prime cuts of land.
From these substations, six 735 kV power lines traverse the vast expanses of taiga and boreal forest in clear-cut stretches of land; this shows up clearly in aerial photos.
In one step to reduce friction, the United States forces in Korea agreed last fall to a 10-year plan to cut the amount of land occupied by American troops in half, to 50 square miles, and to reduce the number of bases almost in half, to 23.
As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
The place-name "Shuart" is from the Anglo-Saxon language and means a skirted, or cut-off, piece of land.
We spoke with a local expert on land values, who pointed out that "around here," he said, "there are a hundred cuts" to slice every piece of land.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, who commanded Union forces in the region, ordered his brigadier in charge at Baton Rouge, Gen. Thomas R. Williams, to take his troops and "cut off the neck of land beyond Vicksburg by means of a trench across".
Positioned on the southern slope of the Caucasus Mountains, which cut across the neck of land between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, Georgia lies along the ancient Silk Road, a route that has been partly retraced with oil pipelines.
Those defenses stretch over 330 yards (300 metres) and cut off a triangle of land high above the Andarax River, with a cemetery of more than 70 collective tombs lying just outside the walls.
The most fierce fighting has been in northern Helmand's Sangin valley, a fertile strip of land cut through the desert that is home to hundreds of small poppy farms.
